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Chapter 9 Schools Not Spared
TABLE OF CONTENTS
9.1 SEVERE VIOLATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL RIGHTS OF FALUN GONG PRACTITIONERS
9.1.1 College students in Shanghai face great pressure
9.1.2 Practitioners from Oil University of Eastern China detained, fired and dismissed
9.1.3 The home of a faculty member of Tsinghua University was ransacked
9.1.4 A college student was suspended
9.1.5 Persecutions in one of the best Universities - Tsinghua University
9.1.6 Professor was sentenced to 3 years of labor camp
9.1.7 A graduate student was dismissed from the university and arrested
9.1.8 Seven students were arrested due to practicing Falun Gong on campus
9.1.9 A professor was sentenced to four years in prison for posting an article on the Internet
9.1.10 Eight graduate students were detained or suspended from research
9.1.11 Many students of Tsinghua University were forced to leave school
9.1.12 Many graduates of Zhejiang University were arrested or detained
9.1.13 An interpreter for Falun Gong at a press conference was put into custody
9.1.14 A graduate student was dismissed after custody
9.1.15 A 63-year-old professor was tortured with 24 kinds of devices
9.1.16 Three graduate students expelled from schools for drafting a letter
9.1.17 A student was charged for spreading subversive information
9.1.18 A student of Jixi University was detained and dismissed
9.1.19 Appealing students were intercepted by police
9.1.20 A female teacher's body was cremated in a rush
9.1.21 A university teacher was arrested and her home was ransacked
9.1.22 Two Ph.D. students were intercepted during appealing
9.1.23 An 11-year-old boy said he was expelled from school
9.1.24 A professor's left foot was swollen to double-size by torture
9.1.25 Over ten practitioners were beaten with their trousers pulled down
9.1.26 A 16 year old female student was also tortured
9.1.27 Three graduates were arrested and their money was confiscated
9.1.28 Tsinghua University student was beaten and rejected class registration
9.1.29 A senior undergraduate student was dismissed from the university
9.1.30 Ten thousand Chinese university students face the threat of expulsion
9.1.31 Falun Gong practitioners in several universities were deprived of freedom of study
9.1.32 Insulted and threatened, a young student jumped out of a train and died
9.1.33 Dragged for about 50 meters, practitioners were scratched and bleeding
9.1.34 Four graduates were not allowed to register by the university
9.1.35 A senior undergraduate student in Xinjiang was dismissed
9.1.36 A Ph.D. student and his friend were arrested and suspended from their research
9.1.37 Practitioners were forced to write the pledge and give up Falun Gong
9.1.38 Several policemen threw a practitioner up two meters in the air
9.1.39 Followed and videotaped by the police, teacher lost personal freedom
9.1.40 Practitioners were watched by the police, even when they went to a
restroom
9.1.41 A middle school teacher was forced not to tell the truth
9.1.42 Even practitioner's family members (non-practitioners) were harassed
9.1.43 A school announced whoever practicing Falun Gong would be fired or
dispelled
9.1.44 College students received warnings of expulsion from school
9.1 Severe Violations of Educational Rights of Falun Gong Practitioners
9.1.1 College students in Shanghai face great pressure
Message received: February 23, 2000 [Buohuo Net]
Victims: College students in Shanghai
Location of incident: Shanghai, China
Description:
The persecutions against Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai are being implemented relentlessly but quietly to avoid international attention. In particular, the college students who practice Falun Gong are in the similar situation as those practitioners in universities in Beijing who are under great pressure.
9.1.2 Practitioners from Oil University of Eastern China detained, fired and dismissed
Message received: February 21, 2000
Victims:
1. Wang Yanshu
2. Cheng Guangchang
3. Yu Lijian
Location of incident: Oil University of Eastern China, Shandong Province
Description:
Wang Yanshu, a student from the Oil University of Eastern China, went to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong and got arrested on the Tiananmen Square. Later, he was escorted back to the University and detained in the Public Security section 110 office for 48 hours. He was not allowed to sleep during the detention. The guard stood aside to make sure he didn’t get a nap on the chair, he would wake him up. He is now detained in Oil Public Security for 15 days.
Cheng Guangchang, a faculty member of the Oil University, was removed from his post for having gone to Beijing to petition for Falun Gong.
Yu Lijian, a student from the Oil University, was dismissed from the University for writing a letter to the University officials to report the truth of Falun Gong.
9.1.3 The home of a faculty member of Tsinghua University was ransacked.
Message received: February 14, 2000.
Victim: Yu Jia, a faculty member of the Tsinghua University.
Location of incident: Beijing, China.
Description:
On February 12, four police officers from Branch 14, Beijing Police Department, and from Tsinghua University ransacked the home of Yu Jia, a faculty member of the Tsinghua University. The police officers confiscated Falun Dafa materials. They beat her brother for protecting the Dafa materials.
Yu Jia’s letter to the school administration on her position in participating in the New Year’s Eve protest:
To: Mr. Chen Jian - Please also pass this on to the leaders of the faculty at the University.
I think the current conclusion of the Chinese government in dealing with Falun Dafa is extremely unfair. It is absolutely against the truth and also violates the Constitution. It is also against basic human conscience. As a beneficiary of Falun Dafa, I felt obliged to stand forth and say something, especially when Dafa is suffering from unjustified suppression. Falun Dafa took away all my illness in a surprisingly short time; Falun Dafa teaches me the true meaning of life and the principle of being a person. From the sayings of our forefathers: “Receiving a favor of a drop of water from another, repay his kindness with a whole well.” I am only an ordinary person with no power and privileged status. What I can give in return to Master Li Hongzhi and Falun Dafa is simply my conscience.
In addition, the current actions being taken by the government against Falun Dafa against teaching professionals, working staff and students are also very unjust; putting students on suspension, forcing them to leave school, or to attend study sessions or to compel them to say things against their will.
These students and teaching professionals have not committed any harm toward the nation and the people. They have done nothing wrong. They have followed Master Li Hongzhi’s teaching of cultivation in order to be good people. How could you treat them in such a way? Some say that Falun Dafa is bad, it is a cult involving brain washing. But Falun Dafa has never put people in study sessions for reeducation, or put students on suspension. People come to learn Falun Dafa freely. Nobody has been forced to learn, nobody has ever been threatened of losing a job, family, and prospects. Of course, I believe the university is also facing difficulties that they will not disclose publicly. To resolve these problems is beyond the university’s capability. Therefore I hope that the university can help me to appeal to a higher government.
I will accept the faculty dismissal from my job and other related matters. Please give my lecture notes and reference materials to Mr. Qian Xiaojun. Please also give my books and materials relating to statistics in my office to Mr. Qian Xiaojun. Please donate all other books to the information center.
Finally, I thank you for all you have done for me.
Yu Jia
Notes: the author of this article teaches at Tsinghua University, School of Business Administration. She is a Falun Dafa practitioner. At New Year’ Eve, she displayed a banner of a Dafa emblem on Golden Water Bridge. She has been detained for a criminal offense. Her husband has been unemployed for over a year. She has a two-year-old daughter.
Her younger brother was an engineer for FESCO. He is a Dafa Cultivator. He was detained for 31 days as for a criminal offense of disturbing social public order by appealing to the Ministry of Public Security Office for Receiving Complains in October 15, 1999. For this, the Communist Committee of FESCO deprived him of his right to work in FESCO. Hence he has been unemployed up to now.
Yu Jia’s sister-in-law is on the faculty of Tsinghua University, Institute of Micro-Electronics. She is a Dafa Cultivator. She was charged with a criminal offense for illegally demonstrating and was sentenced for 18 months in jail because she and other 16 practitioners displayed a Dafa banner on the rostrum of Tiananmen. She has a son just over one-year-old.
9.1.4 A college student was suspended
Message received: February 13, 2000
Victim: Li Jian, a college student from the East China University
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Li Jian, a college student from East China University, wrote to the president of the university last December to communicate his understandings about Falun Dafa. He was suspended on the second day. Later, he and his girl-friend appealed to the Political Consultative Appealing Office. The police received them and transferred them to the Xicheng police station for detention.
9.1.5 Persecutions in one of the best Universities - Tsinghua University
Message received: January 26, 2000
Victims:
1. Zhang Yuwei, a Ph.D. student of the Medical Science Department of Zhejiang
University
2. Guo Chunhuan, a Ph.D. student of the
Ancient Literature Department of Zhejiang
University
3. Chu Tong, female, faculty, Microelectronic
Institute, Tsinghua University
4. Li Yixiang, male, Ph.D. student, the Dept. of
Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
5. Yao Yue, female, a graduate student,
Microelectronic Institute, Tsinghua
University
6. Wang Jiuchun, female, over 50, faculty,
Dept. of Technology Development, Tsinghua
University
7. Liu Wenyu, male, Ph.D. student, Dept. of
Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University
8. Zhang Zhigang, male, graduate student,
Dept. of Hydraulic and Hydropower
Engineering, Tsinghua University
9. Yu Jinmei, female, graduate Student, Dept.
of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
10. Li Chunyan, female, student, Dept. of
Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University
11. Ma Yan, female, student, School of
Architecture, Tsinghua University
12. Liu Zhimei, female, student, Dept. of
Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
13. Li Xiaodan, student, Dept. of Chemical
Engineering, Tsinghua University
14. Qin Peng, student, School of Economics and
Management, Tsinghua University
15. Lin Yang, student, Dept. of Hydraulic and
Hydropower Engineering, Tsinghua
University
16. Pan Yidong, undergraduate student, Dept. of
Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University;
17. Wang Xin, Ph.D. student of Dept., Precision
Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua
University
18. Jiang Yuxia, female, undergraduate student,
Dept. of Water Conservancy in Tsinghua
University
19. Zhang Cunman, student, Dept. of Precision
Instruments and Mechanology, Tsinghua
University
20. Wang Weiyu, male, Ph.D. student, Dept. of
Precision Instruments and Mechanology,
Tsinghua University
21. Huang Kui, male, Ph.D. student, Dept. of
Precision Instruments and Mechanology,
Tsinghua University
22. Meng Jun, male, a faculty member of the
Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua
University
23. Li Min, working in an affiliated business
group of Tsinghua University
24. Cai Huaiyu, senior undergraduate,
Department of Electronics in Qinghua
University
25. Wang Nannan, junior undergraduate,
Department of Precision Instrument in
Qinghua University
26. Chen Zhixiang, graduate student,
Department of Water Conservancy in
Qinghua University
27. Lin Yang, graduate students, Department of
Water Conservancy in Qinghua University
28. Cai Ruitian, Class 52 of Irrigation works of
the Department of Water Conservancy in
Qinghua University
29. Cheng Ming, graduate student, Department
of Economic Management in Tsinghua
University
and others
Location of incidents: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Description:
In the waves of the fierce political crackdown on Falun Gong, universities in China inevitably have been hard hit in this Cultural Revolution-like political campaign. Students are expelled from their schools and faculty members fired. Chinese intellectuals once again are suffering from the severest persecution since the Cultural Revolution.
Because Tsinghua University is one of the most prominent universities in China, Tsinghua University gets the governments attention. Li Lanqing, the vice Premier of the Chinese communist government, was sent to Tsinghua University to investigate the “Falun Gong problem”. With pressure from the Communist Central Committee, Tsinghua had to be very tough on its faculty members and students practicing Falun Gong. Most of the faculty members and students are excellent in all academic and personal respects.
On October 21 of 1999, police took away 14 students who were attending an “experience sharing conference” on campus. They beat up, handcuffed, and physically tortured the students. Because they refused to sign a statement of giving up their practice of Falun Gong, some students were forced to apply for withdrawal from school. A Ph.D. student who was thought to be an “organizer” was detained for 30 days.
After October 25, 1999, 25 students (7 Ph.D., 7 Master-degree, one MBA and 10 undergraduate) were suspended from school. These students and a young faculty member were sent home with their respective parents. Two graduate students had to withdraw their Communist Party membership under severe pressure.
Early in December, the university asked the suspended students to write confessions. The confessions had to meet certain requirements such as admitting to Falun Gong as an “evil cult”. If the university was not satisfied, it would not resume the students schooling. Again, at the beginning of the next term, the university would review the students’ confessions. Only when the confession was “satisfactory” could the student return to school.
Consequently, the university transferred the files of Falun Gong practitioners to the local public security department so that they could be under constant surveillance. Up to now, some students who wrote proper confessions were allowed to go back to school. Others are still suspended.
Below are some details about the students and faculty members who are still being persecuted.
Tong Chu has been detained at Qiliqu detention center in Beijing. It was said she could be sentenced.
Li Yixiang became the target of public security department after he put his “Declaration of Giving up Communist Party Membership” on the Internet. He was detained when attending an “experience-sharing conference” on October 21, 1999. It was reported that he had been forced fed when on a hunger strike in prison. He has been continuously isolated for “reform” at “200#” (an agency of The Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University, near the south entrance of Chang Ping County) even after leaving prison. A team of over twenty teachers kept working daily on reforming him. The vice-chairman of theTsinghua Communist Committee, Zhang Zaixing, led the team. Mr. Li’s mother and brother also joined in the persuasion. During “the reform”, he was compelled to write some stuff against his own will. His “transformation” became typical propaganda of government-controlled newscast (without mentioning his name). The team edited and modified what Mr. Li wrote and published it in the People’s Daily (official communist newspaper) as his critical article against Falun Gong.
Yue Yao continued to practice Falun Gong. The institute had been trying to kick her out. She had to give up her Communist Party membership and student status under pressure.
The university is presently running a “transforming class” to brainwash four people: Wang Jiuchun, Liu Wenyu, Zhang Zhigang and Yu Jinmei. Ms. Wang Jiuchun was allowed to go home in the evening and attend classes at daytime while three others were confined in isolation. They were forced to learn defamation materials against Falun Gong, to have talks with the team leader and to write confessions. The “transforming class” lasted 20 days. Persons wrote articles about their personal experience. A transformation report would be pieced together, once something that could be utilized for defamation was found in their articles. Mr. Li Yixing’s propaganda was produced in the same way. Three students might be expelled from school if they did not change their positions on Falun Gong before the end of the “class”.
The following students were not allowed to go back to school. They either refused to write confessions, or could not pass the assessment. They are: Li Chunyan, Ma Yan, Liu Zhimei, Li Xaiodan, Qin Peng, Lin Yang, Pan Yidong, Wang Xin, Jiang Yuxia, etc.
Jiang Yuxia returned to school once without the university’s prior permission. As a result, her identity card was taken away by the local public security department. She could not get her ID card back until she met the university’s “requirement”, or she would be terminated from school. The local public security department threatened her by “arrest” or a labor camp unless she renounced her belief in Falun Gong.
Zhang Cunman, Wang Weiyu and Huang Kui, Kui had unwillingly written the so-called “acknowledgement”, but still had to go through “study class”, and were not able to continue their normal education.
Meng Jun was not allowed to work, probably will be getting fired by next school term because his “confession” was not up to par.
Li Min was sent home accompanied by Li’s father, as Li’s confession on Li’s return did not include any condemnation, Li’s Communist Party Membership would probably be seized.
Wang Dazhong, the President of Tsinghua University says that this struggle with the students is a long-term project and it needs to be carried through.
Attachment: Tsinghua University’s Views on How to Treat Those Students Who Insist on Practicing Falun Gong
The Views on the Treatment of the Student Status of A Few Students Who Are Required to Introspect at Home because of their Practice of Falun Gong
Recently, according to the influence of higher authorities, the university has adopted some measures on a few students who practice Falun Gong. These measures including asking them to go back home with their parents and spend time in introspection for quite some time. Some students have changed their opinions to different extents. Now after some discussion, Tsinghua University’ authorities have the following views about those students status at school:
All these students must hand in written materials which must cover the following points: the student’s own criticism on “Falun Gong”, their introspection on the error to join Falun Gong, their promise to abide by the laws and rules in the future, and other matters that the university requires them to talk about.
Those students who have had quick changes in their opinion and hold a new view on Falun Gong can be allowed to return to school and resume their studies in the near future. The time they spent at home will not be treated as skipping school. They will be examined in all of their courses according to the usual requirements and these students have to be responsible for their own course performance.
Students not making significant progress in their opinions toward Falun Gong will not be allowed to return to school. The university asks their parents to cooperate with the school in helping them continue their introspection at home. And their parents are also required to go through the procedures to suspend these students’ schooling without losing their status as students. The time of suspension is temporarily set to start from the day they return home to the end of this term. Whether or not these students will be allowed to resume their studies next term depends on the changes of their opinions. Students insisting on withdrawing from the school have to submit a formal application to withdraw as required by the university. If the university agrees to treat them as normal cases to withdraw from school, their parents can come to school to go through relevant procedures with regard to their applications.
School of Graduate Studies The Tsinghua University Administrative Office The Tsinghua University Student Affairs Office November 16, 1999
Letter of appeal
To: All persons concerned with the Falun Gong incident
As Falun Gong practitioners from Tsinghua University, we wish to share with you the truth of Falun Gong cultivation, and the dilemma that most Mainland Chinese practitioners have been experiencing since the Chinese government banned Falun Gong on July 22, 1999. Most Falun Gong practitioners from our university are registered students and teaching staff. The students are excellent in their studies while the teaching staff members are honest and responsible. Most of us became significantly healthier and achieved peaceful minds after joining in Falun Gong cultivation. We all attribute the great improvement of our body and mind to Falun Gong cultivation.
After the Chinese government denounced Falun Gong as illegal on July 22, 1999, some of our prominent members were requested to break away from Falun Gong, while the students were ordered to discontinue the practice and hand in Falun Gong books and materials. However, the majority of the student practitioners went on practicing. The university administration put most of the students who were determined in practicing Falun Gong on suspension and forced them to go home after the Chinese government further declared Falun Gong to be an “evil religion”. The University also asked the parents to participate in transforming their children so as to “keep pace with the Central Communist Committee”. At the same time, some of the teaching members were also either suspended from work for “introspection” or sent to “reform”. These people could not resume their education or work position unless they take a stand against Falun Gong and promise not to practice any more. Under the pressure of both the University and parents, some of us had already written the “confession” unwillingly. Those who refused the submission were put under house confinement to achieve “mind-changing”. Some students were threatened with termination from school or detention or “re-education through labor” if they did not write their confessions. One student who was already expelled from university disappeared after he was called in by the sub-district office.
We have been studying in Tsinghua University for many years, and have always felt that the teaching and learning environment here was open, free and allowed creative thinking. Through Falun Gong cultivation, we achieved healthy bodies and high morality by following the principle of “Truth, Benevolence, Forbearance,” introduced by Mr. Li Hongzhi. We just do not understand it at all why the Chinese government doesn’t allow the presence of good people in Tsinghua University, a world-renowned educational and research institution. We merely want to follow Falun Gong principles to become better persons. We cannot understand the criticism against Falun Gong. The lies that we must accept are totally against our will. It is ironic to ask people to lie in such an independent academic environment. It was also totally wrong to threaten people with termination of their work or education. From our story, you can get a picture of how difficult the situation is that our Mainland Chinese practitioners are facing.
We feel that Falun Gong is based on compassion and truthfulness. It is beneficial to both mind and body instead of bringing danger and evil to people as the Chinese government claims. We think it is incorrect to treat kind-hearted Falun Gong practitioners as enemies. We hope all concerned people will come to know about Falun Gong and the calamity that happened to us in China. As the situation is getting progressively worse, we call for your closer attention to help us resolve the present crisis through direct dialogue with Chinese government. This will bring great significance to our nation and our culture now and in the future. We hereby on behalf of all kind-hearted Chinese people, including Falun Gong practitioners, express our sincere thanks to all the concerned people.
-- Falun Gong Practitioners of Tsinghua University
9.1.6 Professor was sentenced to 3 years of labor camp
Message received: January 17, 2000
Victim: Hong Jirong, Professor, Sichuan University, Chengdu.
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
Hong Jirong, 62 years old and a professor of Sichuan University, was sentenced to three years of labor camp by the Chengdu police because of his suspected involvement in drafting and signing “an appealing letter to United Nations Secretary Mr. Annan from Practitioners in Sichuan Province”.
9.1.7 A graduate student was dismissed from the university and arrested
Message received: January 17, 2000
Victim: Pan Dongzhen, female, graduate student of Huanan Normal University, Guangzhou.
Location of incident: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
Description:
Pan Dongzhen, a graduate student in the foreign language department of Huanan Normal University, was dismissed from the university because of appealing to Beijing several times. After being released from administrative detention for the second time, she was arrested again when eating together with four other practitioners at her home. She is now under criminal detention.
9.1.8 Seven students were arrested due to practicing Falun Gong on campus
Message received: January 4, 2000
Victims: Seven students of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei Province.
Location of incidents: Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Description:
Eight practitioners who had practiced Falun Gong exercises on the campus of Huazhong University of Science and Technology for a week were arrested in the morning of December 30, 1999. Seven of them were students of that university.
9.1.9 A professor was sentenced to four years in prison for posting an article on the Internet
Message received: January 4, 2000
Victim: Li Fujun, 37 years of age, an assistant professor at Xinxiang Medical College in central Henan Province
Location of incidents: Henan Province, China.
Description:
The Chinese communist regime has sentenced Li Fujun, 37 years of age, an assistant professor at Xinxiang Medical College in central Henan province to four years in prison, a Hong Kong-based rights watchdog said on Monday. The center said Li Fujun had been arrested in October, and that the court accused him of posting an article on the Internet on how Falun Gong could cure illness.
The center also said that to avoid international condemnation for religious persecution, China had sent 5,000 Falun Gong adherents to labor camps - a punishment that requires no court trial.
9.1.10 Eight graduate students were detained or suspended from research
Victims:
1. Cao Kai, male, Ph.D. student from the
Institute of Developmental Biology, Chinese
Academy of Science (CAS), Beijing
2. Chen Kaiqu, graduate student from the
Institute of Mathematics, CAS, Beijing
3. Li Xiaodong graduate student from the
Institute of Mathematics, CAS, Beijing
4. Hong Wei, graduate student from the
Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing
5. Zhou Li, female, graduate student from the
Institute of Microbiology, CAS, Beijing
6. Yuan Xiaofan, female, Ph.D. student from
the Ecology Center, CAS, Beijing
7. Meng Jun, Ph.D. student from the Ecology
Center, CAS, Beijing
8. Yan Xiaohua, female, Ph.D. student from the
Institute of Animals, CAS, Beijing
Location of incident: Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing
Description:
In the Chinese Academy of Science, 8 graduate students stood out to appeal for Falun Dafa. They were then detained as “criminal suspects”. Among them, Yuan Xiaohua has been dismissed. Cao Kai has been detained twice, and he was named as the most problematic Falun Gong member. He is now suspended from his research.
The Chinese Academy of Science adopted the policy of punishing only few and intensely “educating” dozens of graduate students and Ph.D. students who are determined to practice Falun Dafa.
9.1.11 Many students of Tsinghua University were forced to leave school
Message received: December 27, 1999
Victims: Students and Teachers in Tsinghua University
Location of incident: Tsinghua University, Beijing
Description:
In mid-October, 1999, many students and teachers practicing Falun Gong in Tsinghua University had a Falun Dafa seminar with practitioners from other cities. During the period, one practitioner working in a foreign company went to the appealing office of National Public Security, but was detained for a criminal offense. From October 17 to October 21 of 1999, students appeared at the two national appealing offices every day. They were all taken back by university police.
At noon of October 21, a Falun Dafa conference with 70 persons was held in an open field on campus of Tsinghua University. Police arrived after the conference was finished and took 14 students and 20 people who were residents from other cities. In the afternoon of the next day, most students were released except one Ph.D. student who was detained for 30 days for being regarded as the organizer.
Many students and staff had been to Tiananmen Square. Some of them went to appeal during the “National People’s Congress” and were detained for 9 days. Trying to demonstrate the Falun Gong exercise in the Square, some were sent to Fengtai Stadium and later back to school. One teacher is still being detained for displaying a Falun Dafa banner in Tiananmen Square.
Up to date, one student who was also a member of the communist part was expelled from the party and university, and one has been detained since October 21. The other 25 students including 10 undergraduates, 7 Ph.D. students and 1 MBA student were not allowed to attend classes for two months. Their parents were called in to take them home. One young teacher was taken home by the parents.
9.1.12 Many graduates of Zhejiang University were arrested or detained
Message received: December 26, 1999
Victims:
1. Zhang Yuwei, a Ph.D. student of the Medical Science Department of Zhejiang
University
2. Guo Chunhuan, a Ph.D. student of the
Ancient Literature Department of Zhejiang
University
3. Hong Chang, a former teacher in the Guotai
Foreign Arts School of Hangzhou City
4. Fu Weizhong, a graduate student of Zhejiang
Industrial University
5. Zhang Jianbo, a graduate student of
Zhejiang Industrial University
6. Pan Kanxiang, a teacher in the psychology
department of Zhejiang University
Location of incident: Zhejiang Province, China
Description:
At the beginning of November, Zhang Yuwei and Guo Chunhuan, went to Beijing to appeal. They were under “ home arrest” for about one month. Chang Hong, was under “home arrest” for about two months and Fu Weizhong for more than three months for exchanging experiences with other practitioners from other places. He is awaiting trial. Zhang Jianbo, a graduate student of Zhejiang Industrial University, has been detained since the beginning of November and has not yet been released. Recently, he has been “officially” arrested and is going to be tried. Pan Kanxiang is now being detained for exchanging experiences with practitioners from Hangzhou University.
9.1.13 An interpreter for Falun Gong at a press conference was put into custody
Victim: Lei Xiaoting, female, a teacher of the Foreign Language Department, Beijing University of Industry and Business.
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The policemen from the 7th division of Beijing Public Security Bureau took her away from her dorm and put her into custody on the morning of November 5, 1999. The security section of the university said that the police suspected her of having attended the news conference on October 28, 1999 and as being an interpreter for those foreign journalists. Her parents were not allowed to visit her.
9.1.14 A graduate student was dismissed after custody
Victim: Luo Zhijun, a graduate student of Sichuan Institute of Industry, Chengdu
Location of incident: Chengdu, Sichuan province, China
Description:
He was arrested in the home of a fellow practitioner in Pi County, Sichuan province, on October 12, 1999. He was dismissed from the Institute after 15 days of custody. Four students were ordered to monitor him. Later, he was sent back to his hometown in Jiangxi Province.
9.1.15 A 63-year-old professor was tortured with 24 kinds of devices
Victim: Gu Zhiyi, female and 63 years of age, the key contact of the Falun Dafa Chongqing volunteer center, retired professor of the Tax School of Chongqing.
Location of incident: Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
Description:
She was arrested on July 19, 1999. She was subjected to all sorts of inhuman treatments. Twenty-four kinds of devices were used to torture Gu Zhiyi including the “Tiger Stool” (lashing thighs on a bench and then bending legs in the opposite direction by adding bricks under the heels), piercing through fingers with sharp bamboo sticks, electric chair and electric shocks by connecting the top of the head and anus, etc. The government is putting her on trial by accusing her of organizing protests against three local newspapers last year.
9.1.16 Three graduate students expelled from schools for drafting a letter
Message received: December 13, 1999
Victims:
1. Luo Mingpu, a graduate student of Sichuan University;
2. Liu Bin, a graduate student of Sichuan
University;
3. Chen Mingyong, graduate student of Sichuan Institute of Industry.
Location of incident: Sichuan Province, China.
Description:
Two graduate students from Sichuan University, Luo Mingpu and Liu Bin, and a graduate student from Sichuan Institute of Industry have been expelled from their schools. The students were suspected by the authorities of participating in drafting the “Appealing Letter from Falun Gong Practitioners in Sichuan Province to the General Secretary of United Nations, Mr. Annan,” and for collecting signatures.
9.1.17 A student was charged for spreading subversive information
Victim: Zhang Ji, 20 years of age, a student of Qiqihar University
Location of incident: Qiqihar, Heilongjiang province, China
Description:
He was arrested in October, 1999 because he introduced Falun Gong to areas outside of China via E-mail. The authorities charged him for “using the Internet to spread subversive information.’’ On November 8, 1999, Zhang Ji sent information through cyberspace to the United States and Canada in August on what was happening to Falun Gong in Heilongjiang province. He was expected to receive a jail term of between three and five years. Chinese police had stepped up monitoring of the Internet to prevent Falun Gong members from communicating with the outside world or with each other within China.
9.1.18 A student of Jixi University was detained and dismissed
Victim: Zhang Xinkuan, a student of Jixi University
Location of incident: Jixi, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
He was detained for appealing in Beijing. He has been dismissed from his university and is still in custody.
9.1.19 Appealing students were intercepted by police
Victims:
1. Zhang Yuwei, female, a Ph.D student in Zhejiang University;
2. Guo Chunhuan, female, a Ph.D. student in
Zhejiang University.
Location of incident: Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China
Description:
They were going to Beijing to appeal on October 27, 1999 and were intercepted by police in Jinan, Shandong province. The local police department sent them back to Hangzhou under escort. Up to now, nothing is known about Zhang Yuwei. Her family has not been able not contact her. What was happening to Guo Chunhuan was not clear either after she was picked up by the university’s security section on the evening of November 1st. Some Falun Gong practitioners in Zhejiang University are facing dismissal from the University.
9.1.20 A female teacher’s body was cremated in a rush
Victim: Dong Buyun, female and 36 years of age, a teacher of Xiyanchi Elementary School of Lanshan District, Linyi, Shandong Province
Location of incident: Linyi, Shandong Province, China
Description:
She went to Beijing to appeal on July 20, 1999 and was arrested. The police of Lanshan District of Linyi City sent her back under escort on September 20. She was under the custody of her school. She was detained in an office on the second floor of a building in her school, and was not allowed to go home. A guard watched her day and night. She was required to watch TV and learned about the government’s propaganda regarding Falun Gong. She was also required to pledge giving up Falun Gong. She declared with determination that the propaganda on TV was all fabricated and that it viciously slandered Mr. Li Hongzhi. She refused to write the pledge. Instead, she resigned. She would rather give up her job than Falun Gong. On the second day, it was officially reported that she jumped out of a building at night and died. The police cremated her body in a rush before noon on the next day.
9.1.21 A university teacher was arrested and her home was ransacked
Victim: Liu Xiao, a teacher of Beijing Concord Medical University
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
He was arrested since he shared a cultivation experience with fellow practitioners on October, 1999. His apartment was ransacked, and his Falun Gong books were taken away.
9.1.22 Two Ph.D. students were intercepted during appealing
Message received: November 4, 1999
Victims:
1. Zhang Yuwei, Ph.D. student of Zhejiang University;
2. Guo Chunhuan, Ph.D. student of Zhejiang University.
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
Two Ph.D. students of Zhejiang University, Zhang Yuwei and Guo Chunhuan, went to Beijing to appeal on October 27. The police in Jinan City intercepted them. Later they were escorted back to Hangzhou by their local police department. Up to now, the whereabouts of Zhang Yuwei has been unknown. Her family cannot contact her either. The whereabouts of Guo Chunhuan has also been unknown after she was picked up by the University’s security in the evening of November 1st.
9.1.23 An 11-year-old boy said he was expelled from school
Message received: October 30, 1999 [CNN]
Victim: An 11-year-old boy
Location of incident: China
Description:
On Thursday, in an extraordinary move, nearly 30 Falun Gong members invited six international journalists to a secretly arranged news conference in suburban Beijing. Dozens of Falun Gong practitioners gave accounts of persecution and police brutality during the news conference.
An 11-year-old boy said he was expelled from school because he refused to stop practicing Falun Gong. A 31-year-old hairdresser showed off her wrists, still bruised from being handcuffed, with one arm over her shoulder, the other behind her back, in Beijing on October 17.
9.1.24 A professor’s left foot was swollen to double-size by torture
Victim: Zhu Hang, female, Associate Professor of Department of Humanity and Social Sciences, Dalian University of Science and Technology.
Location of incident: Dalian Detention Center, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China
Description:
Zhu Hang was arrested when practicing Falun Gong exercises in a park on August 30, 1999 and charged with “disrupting social order with feudalistic superstition.” When detained in the Dalian Yaojia Detention Center located in Nanguanling, she went through unimaginable suffering, inhuman treatment, and torture. She was tortured with the “Di Lao” (translated literally as the “prison in hell”) device that made her unable to move. As a result, she was not allowed to use a toilet or eat on her own. Because she did not want to make difficulties for other detained practitioners, and food was insufficient for everyone, she started fasting. After 7 days and nights, the authorities started to worry about possible “life accidents”, and ordered several guards to force-feed her with spoons which caused severe injury in her mouth. Later, they installed a pipe in her nose to force liquid into her. She finally lost consciousness, and was sent to the Second People’s Hospital in Dalian City for recovery.
Because of the “Di Lao” device, her left foot was swollen to almost double its normal size. Her right foot was better but still has many injuries. She could not open her mouth to speak well. A doctor was forcing liquids in her. She said that she would like to reveal everything to the media and human right organizations in order to help to release others.
9.1.25 Over ten practitioners were beaten with trousers down
Victim: Huang Hongqi, male and 29 years of age, Ph.D. student in Dalian Mechanical University, Dalian, Liaoning Province
Location of incident: Dalian, Liaoning province, China
Description:
Huang Hongqi was taken into police custody with 10 other Falun Gong practitioners on August 28, 1999 for doing the Falun Gong exercises in a park in Dalian. He was held without charge for two weeks. In an interview with the news agency Agence France Presse (AFP) after his release, he reported that they were beaten on several occasions during detention. The first time was on September 6 when they did their exercises at night in their cell. “The guards took our trousers down and gave each of us 15 lashes with a leather whip. Our buttocks were covered in blood,” he reported to the AFP. According to his account, on September 12 the guards also had them removed their shoes, then used the shoes to beat them in the face before handcuffing them to a window for hours. Two days later, they were beaten with rubber hoses, he said.
9.1.26 A 16-year-old female student was also tortured
Victim: Gao Shanshan, female and 16 years of age, high school student of the First High School in Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang Province.
Location of incident: Qiqihaer, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
She went to Beijing to meet her mother who had traveled from Japan on September 20, 1999 and was staying in a hotel. The owner saw the Falun Gong book brought by her and then sent her to the police department. After being detained for 7 hours, she was only given a stiff steamed bread. During that time, a policeman intermingled his talk with curses. By pulling her hair and forcing her mouth open, the policeman forced her to eat some lamb that had been contaminated by him with an unknown foreign substance. Other policemen also made fun of her. There were also other tortures to this little girl.
Shanshan was an outstanding high school student. Since September 24, she was illegally detained. When her mother came and brought stuff to her, she was made to leave immediately. All the kindhearted people including the teachers in Shanshan’s high school - The First High School of Qiqihaer City-- were moved to tears by Shanshan’s innocent and determined heart. It was said that if Shanshan was still considered to have “no regret”, she would be arrested.
9.1.27 Three graduates were arrested and their money was confiscated
Message received: October 26, 1999
Victims:
1. Chen Kaiqu, male and 24 years of age, graduate student of Computational Mathematics
Institute of the China Academy of Sciences
2. Li Xiaodong, male and 24 years of age,
graduate student of Computational
Mathematics Institute of the China Academy
of Sciences.
3. Hong Wei, male and 24 years of age, graduate student of Microbiology Institute of the
China Academy of Sciences.
Location of incident: Beijing, P. R. China
Description:
They were arrested in the morning of September 5, 1999 when they were practicing Falun Gong in Zhongguancun. After 40 days of detention, they were released. The policemen refused to give back 700-Yuan (money that was confiscated on arrest) without a reason and only gave each of them 10-Yuan for the bus tickets when they were released.
In several important institutes such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 72 people including many graduate students were put on the list of people who refused to give up their belief in Falun Gong. Their institutes suggested to them to make some preparations for their future because they would be dismissed very soon. Most of them were taking part in important research projects.
9.1.28 Tsinghua University student was beaten and rejected class registration
Message received: October 26, 1999
Victim: Zhang Zhigang, graduate student of the Humanity Institute in Tsinghua University.
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Zhang Zhigang.
On July 21, I went to the appealing office to appeal. The police took me to the Fengtai Stadium. Many policemen there beat me up. My white shirt became a black shirt. Also because I refused to give up Falun Gong, the university doesn’t allow me to register.
9.1.29 A senior undergraduate student was dismissed from the university
Message received: October 26, 1999
Victim: Wang Shaofeng, 23 years of age, senior under-graduate student in the Xinjiang Agriculture University
Location of incident: Xinjiang Province, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Wang Shaofeng.
I have never engaged in activities against the law. I was dismissed from the university only because I refused to give up Falun Dafa.
9.1.30 Ten thousand Chinese university students face the threat of expulsion
Message received: October 26, 1999. Reuters in Hong Kong
Victims: about 10,000 university students
Location of incident: China
Description:
An estimate of 10,000 university students face the threat of expulsion if they do not quit the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, a Hong Kong-based human rights group said on Tuesday.
Six students of Beijing’s Tsinghua University on Monday received notices from the university that they were suspended for two months because they practiced Falun Gong, the Information Center of Human Rights & Democratic Movement in China said. On October 21, police detained 34 Falun Dafa members - including university students -- who gathered in Tsinghua University to discuss their experiences in practicing Falun Gong. Only 13 of them have since been released and the status of the rest is still unknown.
The university has claimed that the policy was set by the education department and applied across the country where there were an estimated 10,000 university students who practiced Falun Gong.
9.1.31 Falun Gong practitioners in several universities were deprived of freedom of study
Message received: October 19, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners in several universities in Shanghai
Location of incident: Universities in Shanghai, China
Description:
Practitioners in Shanghai went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. Some practitioners from Shanghai Jiaotong University were taken back from Beijing. Two of them were taken back from a detention center in Beijing and three from a hotel in Beijing. After they were taken back, they were deprived of freedom of studying. They are not allowed to walk out of the school and have been forced to attend the so-called “education class”. Some practitioners from the East China Normal University are detained in a hotel because they declared to continue to practice Falun Dafa and to go to Beijing to appeal. They have lost contact with the outside for several days. Some practitioners from the Tongji University went to Beijing before October 1st. There is no news about them. Other universities are also restricting personal freedom of Falun Dafa practitioners.
9.1.32 Insulted and threatened, a young student jumped out of a train and died
Victim: Chen Ying, female and 18 years of age, a student from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province
Location of incident: Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, China
Description:
She went to Beijing to appeal to the central government at the beginning of August and was arrested. She was sent back to Heilongjiang Province where she was treated with unbearable threats, torture and abuse by the police. She was forced off of the moving train and died as a result.
9.1.33 Dragged for about 50 meters, practitioners were scratched and bleeding
Victims:
1. Liu Wenyu, Ph.D. student of the Department of Heat Energy in Tsinghua University.
2. Yao Yue, female, senior graduate student in the Micro-Electron Institute in Tsinghua University.
Location of incident: Beijing, P. R. China
Description:
The following is a statement by Liu Wenyu and Yao Yue.
On July 21, we went to appeal, we were sent to the Fengtai Stadium by the police and were detained there for one day. The police wanted to send us back to our institute. We refused to go back. Thus the police dragged us for about 50 meters. Our clothes were torn off and arms were scratched and bleeding. Also the police kicked our heads. We were later sent back after being thrown onto the bus.
9.1.34 Four graduates were not allowed to register by the university
Victims:
1. Cai Huaiyu, senior undergraduate of the
Department of Electronics, Tsinghua
University,
2. Wang Nannan, junior undergraduate of the
Department of precision instrument,
Tsinghua University.
3. Jiang Yuxia, undergraduate of theDepartment of Water Conservancy, Tsinghua
University,
4. Pan Yidong, junior undergraduate of the
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Tsinghua University,
5. Chen Zhixiang, graduate student of the
Department of Water Conservancy in
Tsinghua University,
6. Lin Yang, graduate student of the
Department of Water Conservancy in
Tsinghua University.
7. Cai Ruitian, Class 52 of Irrigation works of
the Department of Water Conservancy in
Tsinghua University,
8. Cheng Ming, graduate student of the
Department of Economic Management in
Tsinghua University.
Location of incident: Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Description:
They were not allowed to register by the university because they refused to give up Falun Gong. About 13 undergraduate students and 4 Graduate students were not allowed to register because they practiced Falun Gong.
9.1.35 A senior undergraduate student in Xinjiang was dismissed
Victim: Wang Shaofeng, male and 23 years of age, senior undergraduate student in the Xinjiang Agriculture University.
Location of incident: Urumuqi, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Wang Shaofeng:
“I have never engaged in activities against the law. I was dismissed from the university only because I refused to give up Falun Dafa.”
9.1.36 A Ph.D. student and his friend were arrested and suspended from their research
Victims:
1. Cao Kai, 28 years of age, Ph.D. student in
the Institute of Developmental Biology of
the China Academy of Sciences
2. Zhang Wenfang, female and 28 years of age,
Biology section of Zhiguang Group of
Qinghua University
Location of incident: Beijing, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Cao Kai and Zhang Wenfang.
We are a couple. We were arrested on the morning of September 4 when we were practicing Falun Gong exercises in Zhongguanchun. I was detained by the police for 2 days, and later was detained for another 15 days. Consequently, my research was suspended.
9.1.37 Practitioners were forced to write the pledge and give up Falun Gong
Victims:
1. Han Xudong, graduate students in the Changchun Optical Instruments Institute, Changchun, Jilin Province.
2. Tan Yan, graduate students in the Changchun Optical Instruments Institute, Changchun, Jilin Province.
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Ha Xudong and Teng Yan.
At 10:00am, July 26, 1999, we went to the State Council Appealing Office to report the truth about Falun Gong. After the officer asked about our intention, he said, “You are against the law to speak for Falun Dafa.” He then contacted the Changchun Liaison office in Beijing and asked officers there to come to pick us up. After we arrived at the Changchun Liaison office in Beijing, we lost our freedom. At 7pm, they took us to the Beijing Station and transferred us to the policemen on the train. We were taken to the Changchun Police School under the “protection” of those policemen. The police said that we could go home as long as we wrote a pledge. We went home after we wrote the pledge.
Note: This pledge is a written “guarantee” that the individual will not practice Falun Gong. The penalties for breaking this pledge were understood as threats against the person’s family.
9.1.38 Several policemen threw a practitioner up two meters in the air
Victim: Zhang Chao, undergraduate student of the Department of Foreign Language in Siping Normal University
Location of incident: Siping, Jilin Province, P. R. China
Description:
The following is a statement by Zhang Chao:
At 7:00am, July 22, Falun Gong practitioners and I went to the Jilin provincial government to appeal for the release of Falun Gong contact people in Changchun who were arrested at 1:00am on July 20, 1999. The provincial government did not receive us. Moreover, they dispersed us by violence. I was sitting on the ground. A police grabbed my left leg. Another police grabbed my right hand and hair. Together, they threw me about 2 meters, and then they pushed me into the police car. On July 23, I went to Beijing to appeal. I was arrested in the Beijing Station, and then taken to the Fengtai Stadium by the police without an explanation. I was detained there from the morning until 9:00pm. We were only allowed to sit on the assigned spots. We were not allowed to walk around or standing up. At night, I was transferred to Siping detention center. From 11pm of July 24 to the morning to July 26, I was detained in the Hero Street Detention Center for about 30 hours. The police “educated” me. At 8 o’clock of July 26, the official of the university picked me up.
9.1.39 Followed and videotaped by the police, teacher lost personal freedom
Victims:
1. Zhang Yu, teacher of the Kindergarten of Dehui City, Jilin Province,
2. Li Hongxiang, the Kindergarten of Dehui
City, Jilin Province.
Location of incident: Dehui, Jilin Province, P. R. China
Description:
The following is a statement by Zhang Yu:
On July 22, 1999, when I heard that the government decided to ban Falun Gong, I could not understand why. Learning that I wanted to continue to practice Falun Gong and intended to go to appeal, the heads in our kindergarten threatened me, and said: “If you continue to practice Falun Gong, we will fire you.”
On September 10, 1999, Hongxiang Li, a fellow practitioner in my workplace and I were detained for 12 hours without any explanation. We couldn’t go home until 11pm. My personal freedom is still being restricted. My human rights are violated. My work and family life are disturbed. Many practitioners lost the personal freedom. Even when they go to the market, they will be followed and videotaped by the police.
9.1.40 Practitioners were watched by the police, even when they went to a restroom
Victims:
1. Sun Zhongqi, Department of Environmental
Protection, Gongzhuling, Jilin Province.
2. Li Hongjun, Gongzhuling, Jilin Province.
3. Yan Nifei, Gongzhuling, Jilin Province.
4. Wang Yaping, female and 22 years of age,
undergraduate student of Department of
Chemistry, Siping Normal University.
5. Fu Yanhua, female, teacher of the Eighth Middle School of Gongzhuling City, Jiling
Province
Location of incident: Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Description:
The following is a statement by Sun Zhongqi.
On July 21, many practitioners went to the provincial government to appeal. The police pushed us into buses and took us to the police school at the suburb. We were monitored by armed police. At 4:00am of July 22, policemen brutally treated those who insisted on appealing to the government by refusing to get on the buses. They dragged us into the buses by grabbing our hair and clothes. They took us to an elementary school and forced us to stay in the classrooms. We were watched by the police all the time, even when we went to a restroom. We were not allowed to talk. After we went home, our work units and the police department forced us to write a pledge of giving up Falun Dafa and hand in books of Falun Dafa. The police have been disrupting our private lives at home. They forced us to give up Falun Gong and to read those fabricated and distorted reports about Falun Gong.
On September 7, some practitioners and I went to Beijing to appeal. On our way to appeal, we learned that Wang Yaping and Fu Yanhua were detained by the Zhunhua County police department. They are now still in custody. Another Nine practitioners from Gongzhuling who came together with us had gone to the State Council Appealing Office to appeal. On September 23, I learned from a local practitioner from my hometown that those 9 practitioners including Li Hongjun, Yan Nifei had already been escorted back by the police. The news of their arrest had been broadcast on TV. The police are trying hard to arrest those practitioners who are in Beijing attempting to appeal to central authorities.
9.1.41 A middle school teacher was forced not to tell the truth
Victim: Liu Yong, teacher in the Fourth Middle School of Siping City, Jilin province.
Location of incident: Siping, Jilin Province, P. R. China
Description:
The following is a statement by Yong Liu.
At 3:00pm, July 22, 1999, Falun Dafa was denounced as an “Illegal Organization”, and our rights of studying and practicing Falun Dafa were deprived. I was deeply shocked. Many people including myself have had our mind and body purified after taking up Falun Dafa practice. However, in August, the officials in our school used all means to continuously force us to write our under-standing of the “harm” of Falun Dafa. When I wrote down the truth; that is, Falun Dafa is well grounded in all virtues and TV reports were all lies, they forced me to be “consistent” with the central authorities, and did not allow me to tell the truth. Legal appeals were banned too.
9.1.42 Even practitioner’s family members (non-practitioners) were harassed
Victim: Xiao Yuanguang, a student of Jiangxi College of Forestry Technology,
Location of incident: Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, P. R. China
Description:
The following is a statement by Xiao Yuanguang.
Since April 25, 1999, the local government and party officials such as the party secretary of my working unit, the head of the school and the secretary of the local party chapter have been taking turns to pressure me to give up Falun Dafa and hand in all Falun Dafa books. This continued till October. I told them that Falun Dafa could make one healthier. Moreover, the freedom of belief is the right conferred to every citizen by the constitution of the People’s Republic of China. However, they said that they were following the instructions given by the provincial and central authorities.
Since July 20, many of my fellow practitioners in Nanchang like Peng Xiaohua, Yu Qinyun, Chen Yong, Yu Xiuping, Wang Qin, Hao Jinjiang, Li Ke have been imprisoned by the local Public Security Bureau. Their homes were ransacked. The only reason for such ill treatment is that they practice Falun Dafa. Because I have gone to Beijing to appeal, policemen from the Police Station of my hometown have been harassing my family continuously. They told my family to let me know that I should report and confess to them upon returning home. I feel that we have committed no sins to be confessed. Instead, it is the government that is severely violating the constitution and human rights.
9.1.43 A school announced whoever practicing Falun Gong would be fired or dispelled
Message received: June 18, 1999, reported by a Falun Dafa practitioner in Dalian City
Victims: Faculty and Students in Dalian Foreign Languages College.
Location of incident: Dalian, Shandong Province, China
Description:
I am a teacher teaching Japanese language in Jinzhou Joint Training College of Dalian Foreign Languages College until May 9, 1999. On April 26 at an instructor meeting, the leaders of the College seriously asserted that “The government has determined Falun Gong to be the biggest anti-state evil cult and will be abolished in the next step. All teachers and students in our college are prohibited from learning or practicing Falun Gong. Moreover, you are not allowed to go outside to practice.”
On April 28, an evening TV news release from Central Government Office and National Council Office was broadcast. The officials in charge of those two offices clearly stated that “Any kinds of Qigong which are helpful to healthy and keeping fit have never been prohibited by any levels of governments.” But right after we heard this statement from the leaders, there was a special, all-hands conference held in the college on the same day. The purpose of the conference was to spread “superior instruction” which absolutely prohibits teachers as well as students from practicing Falun Dafa. Those who carried on the practice of Falun Dafa would loose their positions as teachers and students.
At 5:30am on May 9, twenty teachers along with twelve students and I were practicing outside our college. Head XXX found us practicing Falun Gong when his car passed by. He told us to meet him in the college conference room after we finished. He said, “I will give you two options to choose from: either you can continue your study and work if you quit practicing Falun Gong from now on, or you will be expelled.” We all deeply know that the principle of Falun Dafa is the best teaching that teaches everyone to be better people and to pursue benevolence. Moreover, as a citizen of China, we have the rights to freely join the activities of healing illness and keeping fit. All such healing practices are permitted by the government. I asked the head, “Why does our college not allow us to practice while the government does? Is there any problem with our teaching or study?.” He answered, “You did excellent job in your academic work and are welcome by the students. But as you are insisting in practicing Falun Gong, we cannot allow that. This is the instruction from the high officials.” He expelled three teachers and one student on the spot. Others were being persuaded by the leaders of the college to quit practicing as soon as possible. Although we have an employment contract with the college, we were not allowed to work there as long as we are Falun Dafa practitioners.
After I was fired, I went to Jinzhou and stayed for a while in Jinzhou. When the officials discovered that I was still there, they contacted the local police bureau to keep watching me and following me. From May 20 to the end of the month, more than ten policemen were searching for me everywhere. One night more than ten policemen driving two cars and holding police sticks went to my previous landlord and used flashlights to look around the house without the permission of the house owner. Later on, they went to a Falun Gong assistant’s house to look for me. All of these incidents created very bad effects in the local area and greatly disturbed the residents.
9.1.44 College students received warnings of expulsion from school
Message received: June 9, 1999
Victims: Falun Gong practitioners
Location of incident: Universities in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
Description:
Universities have prohibited Falun Gong practitioners from practicing on school premises. Students have received warnings of expulsion if they practice Falun Gong.
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